Putnam Avenue & Patchen Avenue

Putnam Avenue and Patchen Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Patchen Community Square Garden is 40 feet away, and St Stephens & St Martins Episcopal Church is 1,010 feet away. The nearest subway, Gates Av, is about nine minutes on foot, for the J and Z. Within a five-minute walk are 33 public places, 24 of them religious buildings, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
15 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Gates Av
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · J, Z
Nearest bus stop
900 feet
Gates Av/Patchen Av · B52
Within a walk
33 places
24 religious buildings, 4 gardens and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Putnam Avenue & Patchen Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Gates Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Gates Av J, Z
    0.4 miles
    J Z

Next trains at this station

Outbound
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …

Also within a walk

  1. Kosciuszko St J
    0.4 miles
    J

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Dream Train” (2002) by Chris Wade Robinson at the Gates Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Gates Av/Patchen Av, 900 feet away, for the B52.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Gates Av/Patchen Av B52 · Shelter
    900 feet
    B52
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B52 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Jefferson Ave & Patchen Ave 19 docks in all
    360 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 8 Malcolm X Boulevard Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 824 Lexington Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 15 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, August 2017

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11221
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
36 and 41 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
81
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)
Elevation
48 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1899 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 18 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 60 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 35 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2018 and May 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Patchen Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Patchen Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of Putnam Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

South side of Putnam Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 33 public places.

  • 24 religious buildings
  • 4 gardens
  • 3 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. The Katmint Learning Initiative Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,150 feet
  2. P.S. 309 the George E. Wibecan Preparatory Academy School
    1,150 feet
  3. Uncommon Excellence Girls Charter School NYC School
    1,150 feet
Show all 4
  1. Uncommon Excellence Boys Charter School NYC School
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Patchen Community Square Garden
    40 feet
  2. P.O. Reinaldo Salgado Playground
    320 feet
  3. Citizens for a Better Community Garden
    410 feet
Show all 5
  1. Gates Harvest Garden
    900 feet
  2. Welcome Home Garden
    1,000 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bethenia Baptist Church House of worship
    590 feet
  2. St Johns AME Church House of worship
    960 feet
  3. St Stephens & St Martins Episcopal Church House of worship
    1,010 feet
Show all 5
  1. St Leonards Anglican Church Listed historic place
    1,150 feet
  2. Janes United Methodist Church House of worship
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    900 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and nine food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Patchen Avenue or Putnam Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.